Jiazhen Hong is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Engineering at Rutgers University and a part-time research intern in EEG foundation models at Emotiv Research.

He received a B.Sc. double degree in Communication Engineering and Business from Jimei University and Chung Yuan Christian University in 2016, and later earned an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in 2018. From 2019 to 2020, he was a research student at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. Jiazhen joined Rutgers in 2020 and has been supervised by Professor Laleh Najafizadeh since 2021. His research interests include brain-computer interfaces (BCI), foundation models, time-series signal processing, and large language models (LLMs).